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Re: Proposed experiment for WOW users



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My trading buddies that use Cyber are getting ready to dump it because of 
reliability problems and quotes falling behind at times.

In a message dated 10/31/00 7:40:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> Hello  Ullrich,
>  
>  i  can  tell  you right now that cybercorp should beat them all.  they
>  are  setting  on  one of the only two oc 192 backbones in the country,
>  they use sp comstock as a back up.  the whole reason they use pcq over
>  spc,  is speed.  i honestly belive whatever is the best for the client
>  that  is  what  cybercorp  will  do.   that's  what  has  made them so
>  formidable.
>  
>  wow  is up here in richardson which means that they have to go through
>  the    dallas   bottleneck  to  get  data out.  they use spc as a data
>  feed.
>  
>  mark
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 8:16:30 PM, you wrote:
>  
>  UF> I would like to call up a current WOW user by telephone during market 
> hours
>  UF> and compare how up to date the WOW (Windows on Wall Street) datafeed 
is 
>  UF> compared to what I'm seeing from Cybercorp (forwarded through their 
> servers 
>  UF> from PCQUOTE) and possibly www.equitytrading.com (when I get their 
feed 
> set 
>  UF> up).  I may also be able to arrange to have a friend call you up and 
>  UF> compare the WOW speed to his feed from mbTrading.  Anyone interested, 
>  UF> please reply directly to me by email and include your telephone number 
> and 
>  UF> when you would like to be called.  I have found several free and fixed 
> cost 
>  UF> long distance services, so there is no extra cost to me for making the 
>  UF> phone call.  The idea is to read off the T&S prints to each other and 
> try 
>  UF> to determine from the pattern of prints how far apart in time the 
prints 
> 
>  UF> are coming in and which service is faster.  
>